A review by dee2799d
St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business by Ronald Searle

3.0

I've only seen the movie with Colin Firth in it so I don't really know what to expect, but St Trinian's is a delight. The humour is very wry, very black, and sometimes appalling, oh my gosh. But to be perfectly honest, I'd probably be very lost without the introduction. It helped me put Ronald Searle's work in a specific timeframe and gave the sometimes macabre humour a definite edge. Knowing that Searle had been a prisoner of war and had done sketches while in prison gives us the idea that this is gallows humour of the very best.

(And it helps I guess to see these little girls going through what to us adults are just the facts of life. The juxtaposition is unexpected and ironic. I love it.)